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fuschia

fuschia is the misspelling of fuchsia.

Meaning of fuchsia

Noun

fuchsia (plural fuchsias)

  1. A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
    • Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves1922, Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 281)
  2. A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
    • She tilted a hand topped with long rectangular nails in furious fuchsia towards her cheeks and fluttered the fingers, fanning.2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 258
    Synonyms:
    magenta

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Questions about fuschia

What is fuschia the misspelling of?
Fuschia is the misspelling of fuchsia.

Words near fuschia in the dictionary

  1. fusase
  2. fusases
  3. fusball
  4. fuscation
  5. fuscescent
  6. fuschia
  7. fuschias
  8. fuscin
  9. fuscine
  10. Fusco
  11. fuscopeptin

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